And we drown

Being the punching bag

To some extent I feel like of late I have been punched for actions I did that were not inovative. This Salon article [1] claims that it was "one misguided editor who decided to remove people from Category:American novelists and put them in Category:American women novelists. Since I did this systematically starting with A (and got most of the way through B) I am probably the intended attack. However as can be seen with the revison history of Anne Rice, and Zelda Fitzgerald, you have done it, and I can identify at least two other editors who did (one of whom later has claimsed we never should have done any such thing and were clearly breaking guidelines). You might want to not say anything about it, at least if you don't want to be personally attacked, and I am perfectly willing to take the brunt of the attack, but I think it misrepresents the nature of wikipedia to claim this is the work of one editor. Especially since the category was created by a different editor than any of the four I mentioned so far.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:40, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedians interested in Sumer

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Your use of multiple Wikipedia accounts

Hi. An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/And we drown, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 22:02, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

User:Ouroborosian has been blocked. Please do not use multiple accounts to edit the same articles (or, worse yet, make the same reverted edits to the same articles]].—Kww(talk) 23:32, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Category:LGBT billionaires

Category:LGBT billionaires, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 22:12, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Franklin D. Roosevelt incomplete reference

Some time ago you inserted into the Franklin D. Roosevelt a reference to ‘Collier 1974’. Would you please complement the information, with at least a title and page(s) number(s), and preferrably also place of publication, ISBN &c?

Lgfcd (talk) 18:28, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Category:Golden Bear winners has been nominated for discussion

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Category:American people of French-Vietnamese descent has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Syphilis survivors has been nominated for deletion

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Category:Ovarian cancer survivors has been nominated for deletion

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Category:LGBT Bahá'ís has been nominated for deletion

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Category:Manx centenarians has been nominated for deletion

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